December has seen a range of activity relating to diversity going on at Pinsent Masons. Across the UK we have been holding our annual Diversity Week, which has seen a range of activities taking place including: ‘bring your child to work day’, a Diwali celebration event including lantern making and an LGBT film night. Attracting the…

On 1 December 2011 Pinsent Masons and five other City law firms held the first joint-firm LGBT graduate recruitment event. Coinciding with World AIDS day, DiversCity consisted of an afternoon of seminars and networking opportunities for LGBT students interested in pursuing a career as a commercial lawyer. The event, which was advertised to students across the UK,…

Those of you who have been following the recent debate surrounding the decline in social mobility, particularly within the professions, will have noticed there has been a distinct lack of reliable data to support many of the claims being made, the major exception to this being the detailed research conduted by the Sutton Trust. As mentioned…

As you may have noticed we have been a bit quiet of late, this is not because we have been taking a break (if only) in fact the Graduate team has been extremely busy screening all the applications we received to our vacation placement programme and more recently providing verbal feedback to those candidates who were…